The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1877, Page 10

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, os WEEKLY HERALD.—One dollar per yenr, tree of post: “orice TO SUBSCRIBERS,—In ordler to insure atven- Mon subscribers wisbing their Saar changed must give dueir old ne well ws their new wddr Leste Rejected communications will not be returned. vind packazes should be properly scaied. —_——-—- PUWLADELPHIA OFFICE-NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LgxDOS “AREICR 0 (fl THE NRW YORK HERALD~ MGs ff DE DOPERA. received and AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, PARK THEATRE—Cavsurp Teackd:a%, EAGLE THEATRE—Micuty Dowiak. WALLACK’S THEATR cnt AMERICAN INSTIT GRAND OPERA HOUSE— fru Danitxs, PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN—J anu Even, WOOD'S THEATRE, 81 IGYPTIAN HALL—Vanixn 1OLUMBIA OPERA HOUS , 7, F Iurontaxt Nori TO ApvEnTisens.—o insure the proper classification of advertivements tt ix absolutely necessary that they be handed in before eight o'clock every y evening. From our reports thie morning the; pron ities gre that the weather in New York and its vicinity fo-day will be warm and partly cloudy-or fair, fol- lowed by increasing cloudiness und possibly light rain, Watt Street Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- ket was leas active, but prices remain steady. Gold advanced from 103 to 10313. Govern- ment bonds were firm, States dull and railroads quiet. Money on call lent at 4 a 5 a 6 per cent, and closed easy ut 4 per cent. THe Book TRADE SALe, whieh ch closed yester- day, was encouraging to the trade. Prices were as a rule good. ‘Tun Busivess Farturrs tor September are, anfortunately, larger than in any month this yeur with the exception of serene Tur Lone Vacation comes to an an end to-day and to-morrow begins the legal new year. In all the courts the calendars are unusually heavy. Tuy Jenone Park Races opened auspi- ciously, and there can be no doubt that the meeting will be a brilliant close to the turf rec- Joun has not been Ir Our Consun Imposed upon a few trifling relicg of Sir John Franklin's expedition have been found, but they throw no new light on the fate of the great cx- plorer. Fersanpina Is Stine St ING severely from the yellow fever, nearly one-tifth ot the in- habitants being stricken down. Four deaths have becn reported within the last twenty-four hours, Tue Liquor Deaters will be represented in force at Albany next week. They have, of tourse, the right to try and influence the Demo- tratic Convention if they can, but if they have any interest in the success of that party they bad better remain at home. Turner Is AN Invortanr Piece of Mormon news this morning--namely, th indictment of one of the leaders in the Aikev massacre, several years ago. Rockwell, the indicted Danite, was necused of murder more than thirty years ago, and it is really difficult to tell how many persons he has killed since his Mormon career We Preset Tins Morxine the substance of several official despatches relative to Indian matters, all of which confirm the news fur- nished by our own correspondents twenty-four hours before. The government is really begin- ning to do pretty well in the news line. Twenty- four hours behind is not so bad. Tuere Is 4 Prosr that at least one of the Hu ter’s Point nuisances will be rooted out. tment has been found against the proprietor of an establishment who has been poisoning the air and filling the cemeteries for years, and he announces his departure with his fragrant odors. Now for the others. Cowmisstoner Enitanpr’s rebuke to the police lobbyists who announced their determination to endeavor to influence legislation at Alba favor of pensions for the force was excce ingly tim Whatever may be thoaght of the abstract question, there can be only one opinion on.the subject of police officers going to Albany and n ug the duties they are so well paid to perform. Tur We ER.—Just as we announced yes- terday morning, the sensational despatches that were bulletined in New York regarding the eyelone on the Carolina coast were not based on | acter of that | Q proper appre disturbance. A light shower in the morning, with cloudiness and high temperature, fulfilled our weather predictions f The “cy. elone” has now expended its « Natteras, and, although the bai to be relatively low in that ening indications have pussed ent. As also noted in yeste conditions in the Gulf hot so reasst The winds continue nthe eastward northeastward and are increasing in velocity. The pressure is low south there are indications that a ¢ ie disturbance ia moving very slowly in the region southward of Cuba. It is possible that the Gulf storm or syelone which was reported on the 21st may be making a very slow advance to the westward, but as yet the indications of its movements are not sufliciently definite. In the Northwest the pressure has fallen very low, aud high winds approaching in force to gales prevail in Dakota aud the Upper Missouri and Mississippi val No rain, excopt in the lake district, has yet gended this depression, which is, howe ng all the features of agreat storm. The area of highest pressure is now over the New Engl: Btates. The barometer is falling in Upper Can- ada and Now Brunswick as well as in all the sentral districts. A high temperatare prevails west of the Alleghanics. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and Sadan wa post or fair, followed by increasing er continues the tl possibly light rain. An | «Loft Florida, and | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1877. —QUINTUPLE SHEET. A Promising Bus! ss Ag tlook, In building a house the first thing neces- sary tobe done is to lay the foundation. We may own a handsome, verdant plot of ground, smooth and pleasant to the eye; but before we can make it the site of a dwelling we must dig down into the earth a sufficient depth, see that it is properly drained, and lay a solid basis of good stone, on which a building may safely stand. If we should neglect this necessary work the superstruc- ture would be worthless, no matter how much architectural skill and taste we might expend upon it. Before we can hope to build up the business prosperity of New York in such a manner as will stand the test of time we must disregard all super- ficial appearances of improvement and get down to the hardpan upon which a substantial progress can be surely and securely based. For the past six j or seven years we have been fluctuating between a condition of unwholesome excite- ment and a state of business paralysis. We have been living in an unnatural atmos- phere. The solid strength of the country has kept up our crédit and appreciated our currency until the gold premium has be- come merely a visionary obstacle to practi- eal resumption; but until recently war prices have been maintained and specula- tion has been almost dead. We have now opened our eyes to our folly. Values are rapidly finding their specie level. The price of labor and the cost of living are de- crensing. We are digging out our lot and building our foundation, and when this work has been thoroughly done we may ; well hope to erect upon a solid and lasting basis a business and commercial prosperity which will surpass anything yet known in the history of the metropolis. It is a manifest fnet that the material and political interests of the country have greatly improved within the last twelve months. The entire South, so recently antagonized and exhausting the energies of her people in continuous political and personal strife, is now ina condition of contentment and repose, and as a consequence we are entitled to look for a steady revival of the important business interests of that section of the Union. New York is specially profiting by this happy solution of the chronic state of national disturbance and derangement. Our streets have not in the last seven years presented such evidences of busi- ness activity as at present. The convey- ance of merchandise for transportation to various sections of the country, especially the South, blockades the thoroughfares of the lower part of the city during the busi- ness hours of the day. But the signs of business reaction do not come alone from the South. The West has had an unusually fruitful season, and with heavy crops has come a fairly active demand, so that on all sides the signs of encouragement and hope may be seen, The autumn trade of our wholesale houses has been Jarger this year than at any time since 1870, and the fairest evidence of a correspond- ing improvement in rotail business of all descriptions may be gathered from the gen- eral remark to be heard on all hands, that “trade is picking up.” The aévértiding columns of the Hxratp are, indeed, a safe | and certain test of the condition of business in the city. To-day, as on last Sunday, the pressure on the advertising columns com- pels the publication of a quintuple shect, | No better evidence of the increasing ac- tivity of business could be offered than that which is supplied by the appearance of to-day’s Hrnatp, with its compact columns of advertisements bespeaking the enterprise and wants of over three thonsand persons. And ‘as the metropolis is to the rest of the Union what the heart is to the human sys- tem, so the activity in New York bespenks a healthy revival all over the country. While we thus seem to be happily on the point of recovering from the troubles we have encountered for the past few years all Europe is in a condition of uncertainty and feverish depression aris’ng from the Eastern conflict, with its possib¥e éventual involve- ments, and the threatened approach of do- mestic disturbance in certain States, France appears to be on the verge of a col- lision between the people and the govern- ment, Spain certainly does not seem se- cure from political troubles under a youthful King who is the mere creature of a cabal. Germany, compelled to be ready for war, is constantly in a state of watchfulness and unrest, while England has no alternative but to prepare on land and sea for the eventualities of the Russian invasion of ‘Turkey. All the business interests of Eu- rope must necessarily suffer from these ex- isting and impending disturbances, while to the United States they promise substan- | tial advantages. Armies cannot be arrayed for war and till the fields or labor in work- shops, and we must contribute to feed their soldiers and replenish their war supply. Besides, European capital is already seek- ing investment on this side of the Atlantic for greater security against the uncertainties at home, and this is likely to prove a new element of wealth in our principal cities. It must be remembered that the business depression under which we for some time suffercd has not been due to the want of in banks and places of deposit, and the low | rates of interest have been unprecedented. | 'The difficulty has arisen from the unsettled condition of a large portion of the country, from overtrading and extravagance and | from the want of a clear and well defined financial policy. Through these and other causes there has been an absence of public confidence which has kept money unem- | | | capital, for money has been superabundant | i | | be fortheoming to back it, Business revives | now because our political disturbances are atan end; ase cight States of the Union heretofore in a condition distracting and unsettling to the whole country have | wheeled into line, assuming their share of contributing to the prosperity of the nation; because pr have nearly reached hard- pan and sp | itself, Three per cent is a very slight bor- der difficulty. As a matter of course real estate will early feel the effect of these improved times. It may not yet be possible to discover any great revival, because this sort of property {has suffered more severely than other ne the general business de- pression, But it is certain that the building business is looming up into ac- tivity, and the Hxnaxp’s account of what has been done this year and is in contem- plation in building and real estate transac- tions, published to-day, sufficiently indicates that the first ripple of returning prosperity is already felt. The substantial settlement of the rapid transit question will give o wonderful impetus to such speculation, especially in uptown property, and we find thus early that shrewd and capable business men are turning their at- tention to available sites for stores, hotels and other large buildings on tho direct line of the Sixth avenue rapid transit road, which we were told was to be such a detriment to” adjacent property. ‘There are rumors that a new Stewart's dry goods palace may occupy asite at the Broadway and Sixth avenue junction, and that a hotel ven- ture seeks the same locality. On Fourth avenue and in the upper wards of the city, which will no doubt soon be reached by rapid transit, a large number of buildings have been erected this year, and this, ac- cording to the testimony of leading real estate men, is only just the turning of the tide. The times favor building specu- lations. Labor and material are probably lower than they will be when the stream of revival flows more swiftly. Besides, as the city grows in beauty, real estate, having reached bottom prices, will no doubt im> prove. What is true of private speculation is also true of public improvement. We shall find no more propitious moment than the present, when business generally feels an onward movement, for undertaking such necessary public works as the interests of the city demand. We should secure at once the Reservoir Park improvement on Fifth avenue and the reconstruction of our dilapidated docks and piers, Above all we should make rapid transit a fixed fact. The main difficulties in its way ar@ happily swept aside, and no further factious ob- structions on minor issues should be sub- mitted to by the people. Our progress will ployed. As confidence is restored money will | the burdens and performing their part in | payment is taking care of | never be so rapid or so well assured as when the first train of steam cars runs through from the City Hall to Harlem Bridge. The Revival of Manly Sports. We are pleased when field sports seem to be as actively encouraged as has been the case during the season now nearly passed. In yachting, in boating, polo, ball, cricket and in fact in all the forms of outdoor sport there has been a display of vigorous ac- tivity which has kept the sporting columns of the Hrnarp and of its enterprising con- temporaries well and readably filled, and which gives evidence of a sharp revival from the time when Oliver Wendeli Holmes characterized the young men of America as ‘‘sallow-faced, pasty-complexioned and soft-muscled.” The sporis of the saddle especially have become popular, and polo, in spite of its’ dangers, is now a recog- nized and favorite addition to the list of muscular games. ‘The fine old sport of “riding to hounds” ix still comparatively unknown on this side of the Atlantic, but we are glad to say that a vigorous effort will be made this fall to bring it into favor. Through the enterprise of Messrs. Griswold, Purdy, Center and Peet ten couples of hounds have been imported from Ireland, and itis the intention of these gentlemen to run a drag or bag fox twice a week during the autumn. A suitable hunting ground has been chosen near East Meadow Brook, at the easterly end of Long Island Plains, on a tract of twelve thousand acres, generously putat the disposal of the huntsmen by the courtesy of Mrs. A. ‘I. Stewart. The value of this exciting sport as a means of acquir- ing a thorough and graceful horse- manship can hardly be _ overrated. The rocking horse riders who can- ter gracefully over the bridle paths of Central Park, painfully conscious of every gesture and carefully studying every motion, ean be called horsemen only by a great stretch of courtesy. The experienced hunter or polo player, on the contrary, absorbed in the sport, forgets for the time whether he is on horseback or on foot or in the clouds. In the mad rush for a polo ball or the “taking” of a high gate that has been for- gotten by the ‘‘gaters” every trace of stifi- ness or self-consciousnessevanishes, and the rider becomes graceful simply because he is perfectly natural, Having abandoned all thought of how he is riding he, asa matter of course, rides easily and well. No oxcr- cise that has become a second nature can be done badly, and the old huntsman or the trained and expert polo player could not ride awkwardly if he would. We trust the efforts of Messrs. Griswold, Purdy, Peet and Center to establish hunting among our popular sports will be completely success- ful and that the enthusiasm for outdoor | games generally will continue to increase ; and spread its beneficial influence through- out the country, Tweed’s Unbosoming. Mr. Tweed continued his evidence before the Aldermanic committee yesterday and further suceceded in convincing everybody that any punishment he could receive would be inadequate to the rascality he has practised, that the sympathy once felt for him was misplaced, and that instead of enjoy- ing a comfortable parlor in Ludlow strect he ought to be working in a chain gang at Sing Sing. With his accustomed effrontery he glibly told of a contract for pipes which were not to be furnished, and the profits of which he was to receive, and of other equally interesting robberies. Tis testi- mony wandered over a variety of subjects, most of which were mere dribblings, such as that he paid ex-Police Commissioner Disbecker and Deputy Secretary of State Apgar sinecure salaries while in the Public Works Department, and that he - bribed ja sub-editor of the Albany Lvening | Journal, whose proprietors he, of course, could not approuch, to put articles into that paper. He was desperately urged to criminate in some way the present proprietor of the Albany Argus. But this was a failure. Mr. Apgar gives an explana- tion of his connection with the great cor- ruptor, Singularly enough, Tweed could remember no names but the two on his pay- thing developed that would tend to prove any | him valuable informer, unless corrobora- | roll and a Mr. W. Hastings, nor was any- | tive seeetiaoay could be secured, with the | single exception of his statement that under ‘Tammany there never was an honest elec- tion in New York. This examination was designed to be the Inst before the State Democratic Convention. A Case of Cruel Reticence. When one man in a great community—and one man only—holds the answer to an ex- citing conundrum, and when that man per- versely refuses to communicate it to an anx- ious public which has longago cried out, “We give it up,” surely it is not libellous to call him hard hearted, cruel, inhuman. A person who thus trifles with what philoso- phers regard as one of the primal instincts of our race, with the curiosity which has come down to us from our great- grandmother Eve, ought not to com- plain if he is stigmatized as _monster. It grieves us to speak of any member of the late administration in such language, but justice compels us to charge that gallant tar ex-Secretary Robeson with such inhu- manity as, the poet says, ‘makes countless thousands mourn,” ‘To descend to particulars, which we do with reluctance, here is the whole Ameri- can navy, such as it is: here are able bodied and ordinary seamen, landsmen and mes- senger boys, captains of the fore, main and mizzen top, quartermasters and quarter gunners, cooks, stewards and sick bay lob- lolly boys, not to speak of the great num- ber of officers, midshipmen, ensigns, lieu- tenants, commanders, post captains, as well as admirals after their kind: here are several thousand good and true men who have spent the summer and full in futile efforts to guess a conundrum of which Mr. Robeson alone has the answer. The whole Navy Department, from the Secretary down tothe porter at the door, has been guessing, and has had to give it up. The newspapers have symputhetically guessed, but in vain. That astute bird, the American Eagle,. has eudgelled his brains, but with no result. And here is Mr. Robeson, placidly wander- ing about New Jersey, partaking of public dinners, cruelly cracking jokes with his friend Cattell, running up to Trenton to manage the Convention—and no entreaties, no appeals, no lingering feeling of human- ity, no sympathy with the eager curiosity in the public mind, prevails on him to break his hard-hearted silence, No one, to look at the gallant tar or to hear him rolling out succulent sca phrases, would suspect him of being such a monster of reticence, Yet not only the whole navy—oflicers, seamen and marines—but the universal Yankee nation screams at him, ‘What has become of the navy pay?” And what does Robeson do? Does he open | his mouth? No, except to put in a fresh quid, Does he even point with his finger? | Not once, so faraswe have heard, There was a report, unauthenticated however, that he once said it was “hanging up be- hind the door,” but, considering the num- ber of doors in the United States, such an answer, if he gave it, must be con- sidered as a mere “glittering generality” and entirely unsatisfactory; it may solve some other. conundrum, but it has no rela- tion to this one, ‘‘What has become of the pay of the navy?” Nobody can be ex- pected to believe that a million of dollars, more or less, is “hanging up behind the door.” It is absurd. To say so would be an unworthy evasion and no answer at all. When Robeson appeared at Trenton we fondly imagined that he meant to unravel the great mystery. We did not suppose, of course, that he had brought the navy pay with him in his trousers pocket from Cam- den. But we did.suppose that he would at last relieve the intolerable curiosity of the public. We thought it not improbable that he would prefer to confide the secret first to the republican party in convention assem- bled. But no, he said never a word on the subject, Of the missing navy pay, orof the big contracts made “‘between March 4 and 10, to the amount of over two millions, some of them fraudulent on their face,” which Secretary Thompson says he discoy- ered and rescinded—of neither of these subjects did Robeson saya word. It is too, bad. But perhaps he is waiting for Con- gress to ask him. Our Water Supply. The Commissioner of Public Works has explained the causes which make the water supply in the upper part of the city so in- sufficient at the present time, and he has taken such measures as are at his command to stop all waste, and to reserve what there is of the supply for the consumers by stop- ping the public fountains and other un- necessary leakages. But New York ought never to bo short of water. Tho health, convenience and safety of the citizens and of the city depend on an ample water sup- ply. It is abominable that we should thus be subjected at intervals toa deficiency, and sometimes even brought to the verge of a water famine when we have such magnificent resources at our command, from which, with a comparatively insignificant outlay, when the importance of the object is considered, wo might draw, It is the most miserable kind of economy to hesitate to make ourselves masters of the situation at once, so that we might rest satistied that for the next century we should command a water supply that would be ample for a city of three million inhabitants and that would insure us at all times the mastery over a conflagration. Care and economy in the consumption may do something for us at a time like the present, but the city ought to be beyond the danger of suffering the incon- venionce of even a temporary lack of water, ‘The Commissioner appeals to the citizens | to practise strict economy in the use of water just at this time, and the appeal should certainly be heeded. Harlem River Regatta. The first regatta open to all amateur oars- men ever given by the Harlem Regatta As- sociation will be inaugurated on the Hurlem River next Tuesday. The events comprise single seulling, pair-oared rowing, four- oared shell and six-oared gig racing. For each of the contests many of the best scul- lers, oarsmen and crews in this section of the country are entered and will compete. Columbia, Yale and Wesleyan colleges will be represented in one or more of the races ; the Atalantas, Wolvenhooks, Athletics and Columbias will compete for the four the Nautilus will endeavor to hold its own aguinst the efforts of the Atalantas, Seawan- hakas, Athletics and Friendships in the pair, and the six-oared gig race will prove an ex- citing struggle, with the Columbia, Daunt- less and Friendship: sixes competing for supremacy. ‘The field of scullers is an un- usually strong one, with such men as Mills, Lee, Content, Gaisel, Pilkington, Coulon, These are largely if not wholly meial topics. _We do not suppose that \the spiritual suicide of Mr. Gulick is in the least degree caused by Mr. Queen's love affair in the wilderness, qnd yet the same congregation will hear about both. As a preparation for expected revival labors Dr. King will ask his people who they are work- ing for, and will wait for their response, and Dr. Crooke will insist on earnestness ia and a host of others not so well known. | doing the work of God. Mr. Pullman will If the weather is tine and the water smooth on Tnesday there is every indication that the first open regatta on the Harlem River will prove one of the most successful events of the rowing season, A Lull in the Battle. Anti-Russian feeling in Hungary was just about to find expression in an armed attack from Transylvania on the Roumanian rail- roads, and a consequent breaking of the Rus- sian line of communications, when the Austrian government stepped im and seized the arms and ammunition of the conspira- tors. The Magyar loves to be recognized by his foes as a chivalrous enemy, but when he is found posing as an assassin even the fact that he is the countryman of Kossuth will not blot out the stain of treachery with which this conspiracy brands him. It is fortunate that the Austrian government has stopped move- ment which could not have failed to involve it in a quarrel with Russia, and pos- sibly with Germany; but the contemplated raid could scarcely haye affected the Russian plans very seriously, as it would have been conducted with a very doubtful prospect of success, On the western side of the theatre of war the Turkish troops are being concentrated with the double object of holding Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina, and of watching the Servian frontier. It is not improbable that the recent victories of Prince Nicholas of Montenegro may have encouraged the Servians to assume a more hostile attitude toward Turkey, especially in the districts separated from Montenegro by a narrow strip of Ottoman territory. The Russian medical department is called on to deal with what is termed ‘‘a tremen- dous number of wounded from Plevna.” These unfortunate victims of the blunder- ing of the gengral staff suffer terrible tor- tures in transit from the field to the por- manent hospitals in Russia as well as from the want of proper surgical aid and nurs- ing. It is only by an experience such as this that the responsible Russian generals can measure the magnitude of their recent mistakes, Turning from this sad spectacle we are confronted by what purports to be a Turkish official joke. The order to the troops of the Sultan not to fire at any Russian general for fear of killing or disablinghim, and thus making room for perhaps more competent men, is a very sensible oneif it has been issued. Had the Czar only caused several of his distin- guished generals to be shot after the first disaster at Plevna there is no doubt that his army would now bo stronger by at least thirty thousand men, and the Turks would not be in any humor for joking. Snow on the Balkans and rain on the Bulgarian plains warn of the approach of the season of inactivity, or, in other words, of that in which the contest will become one of mera endurance between the opposing armies. The New Fiag and an Appropriation, Our colored brethren in South Carolina mean to beat Colonel Sellers. That emi- nent patriot used to Iabor for “the old flag—and an appropriation ;’» but sandry colored men in South Carolina propose to transfer themselves toa new flag—that of Liberia, and we hear will begin their movement by petitioning Congress for fifty thousand dollars toward building a railroad in their proposed new home. Of course their project is absurd. Congress has no authority to build railroads in foreign coun- tries. Nor ought it to help the colored men or anybody else to emigrate from the coun- try. If any one wants to remove to Liberia lct him pay his passage, and if he has no money now to do this let him labor and save until he accumulates a sufti- cient sum, We notice that the Colonization Society takes an interest in the South Carolina emi- gration movement, and we take the liberty to suggest to that eminently respectable body that if it has any funds to devote to African colonization it would do a good stroke of business by fitting out a trading expedition to the Upper Congo. Stanley has just shown the immense importanco of that river, which rises in Eastern Central | Africa and, with the exception of two or three falls or rapids, is navigable almost the whole of its length. It is cruel to encourage American colored men to migrate to the un- healthful and narrowly limited State of Liberia. But if any considerable num- ber of colored South Carolinians wish to go to Africa it would be wise and practical for the Colonization So- ciety to help them in a commercial ex- ploration of the Congo, with a view to set- tlement in the healthful and no doubt pro- ductive highlands of the interior of Central Atrica. Liberia and Sierra Leone, two fever stricken colonies, are and always wero a mistake. The lowlands of the African const are not fit for settlement. In the highlands of the interior Christianized colored men from this country and England may yet found a State, if they really desire to do so, which we doubt. There they would have room and the conditions of a sound and rapid growth; and, tortunately, Stanley has now shown that this intorior is easily accessible, Pulpit Topics To-Day. Every man in search of a wife believes the old statement that it is not good that man should be alone, but Mr, Moment will remind his young men of the tact to-day. And this subject is not very distantly re- lated to husbands and wives, which Mr, Esray will portray, nor to Christian socia- bility, which Mr. Hull will present, nor to old and new manhood, as they shall be dis- cussed by Mr. Davis. Life’s ills and bless« ings, as they appear to the mind of Mr. Hatfield, no doubt have a connection with the sins and sorrows of city life, and the amelioration of the sorrowing,and downeast, as viewed by Mr. Martin. give some needed hints to minds and troubled souls, and Dr, will prove that Christ's silence touching a faturt life is equal to positive testimony toit. Tht» serpent of brass which Moses reared in er wilderness will also be used by Mr. to illustrate life and immortality. Dr. cott will indicate how a church may mote a revival of religion, and Edith O’'Gor. man will discuss the school question, which, it appears, is still one of the living ques tions of the day. Passing of the Rubicon. A large number of party journals have re marked within the last few days that Sena- tor Conkling has ‘‘crossed the Rubicon,” and some of them add that he is ‘‘marching on Rome,” This loads us to say that the Rubicon, which was never in historic times as wide os the Mississippi or as deep as the Amazon, is now, according to the most trust. worthy reports, a somewhat insignificant rivulet. Its bed has probably become shal- low through the deposit of great quantities of baggage—the Romans called it impedi- menta—left in it by the vast number of emi- nent persons who, since Cmsar's time, have essayed to cross it. At the favorite ford there is, recent travellers say, a curious ob- struction caused by the heaping together of large quantities of scabbards, flung there whén those who crossed the Rubicon drew thdir swords and ‘flung away the sheaths, When the Hon. Mr. Platt, tho other day, essqyed to cross he impetuously threw in not only the scabbard, but the sword too Much may be forgiven to a man at so ex citing a crisis, but we trust those who fol low Mr. Platt will not have the ill luck ta step on his sword. Lockjaw is sometimes the unfortunate result of a wound thus in. flicted, P. S.—We understand that a petition ia circulating to change the name of the Rubi- con to Salt River. Charity Gone Astray. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment on Friday last voted to transfer fourthousand five hundred dollars from an unexpended balance in the Department of Charities and Correction to the account of salaries in that department for the present year. That is to say, the department is allowed this sum, and perhaps has been or will be allowed some others, in addition to the very liberal amount appropriated to it in the yearly estimates for the salaries of its employés, and which amount it had no right to exceed, Atthe same time the Board of Estimate and Apportionment replied to a communica- tion trom the Board of Aldermen that they had no funds out of which an appropria- tion could be made for the relief of the suf. ferers by the disastrous fire on Thirty-fifth street and Tenth avenue. Many people will believe that the fou thousand five hundred dollars unexpended balance in the Department of Charities might have been better and more appro- priately used to relieve the suffering and misery caustd by the recent conflagration than to swell the salaries of the Tammany politicians who draw pay from the city for services supposed to be rendered to the costly Department of Charities and Correo tion. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Leipzig loves Liszt. Wool fringes will be worn. lu Milwaukee they all beer it, German tourists like Scotland, ‘Thiers was alwaye called ‘*Monstour.’’ None but the brave deserve the State fair. George Eliot has slender and frail flugers, Buckwheat cakes will soon be down to hard pan. A Bulgarian considers woman as boing inferior to man. ‘The Princo Imperial of France ts Napoleon the fons spot, Cincinnati Commercial on Hayes’ speeches:—“Woll done.” Kar! Marx, the socialist, is a Hebrew and was born in France, Murat Halstoad says that Eada’ jetties can beouly failures, Eighty thousand cattle are to be shipped in one lot from Taylor, Texas, A ten-year-oid girl of Avon, Mo,, weighs 148 pounds, Thore Is a girl worth Avon. Sam Bowles thinks (or rather says) that Blaine will Probably go against Conkling. “He Is not a very big man,” said a Trenton girl; “ut he is swoct—like a Scckle pear,’’ Rochester .Democrat:—“The ambitious gas-bill ia, trying to make a demnition ox of itself.” The Wisconsin tobacco crop Is large, so that Milwau- kee lager will be of stronger flavor next season, “X, ¥. %"—We never quote from your column be. cause you never have anything in tt worth quoting. Where Eastern statesmen are ahead of the Western statesmen is in their being judges of clam chowder, Garibald! tried to improve the Tiber, and as he Jef the dipper under the blackberry bush Le was fre quently heard to exclaim, “Tiber or not Tiber, that the quostion.’? In Pulaski, Ky., thirty-six distilleries are making apple-jack. We glean this shocking news from thi Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, edited by that callow lily, Houry Watterson, The Columbus (Ga) Anquirer-Sun says that Mr, Hayes tells nothing that the democrats have not bon thinking for years. It adds that if Ohio yoos demo- cratic it will go for the President, The contest waged by the partisans of woma: ute frage in Colorado is very warm, and the Denver News hus a part of its columns devoted exclusively to the political afairs of the gentle sex. Chop some fine bits of onions with parsley, and liberally soason with red peppor, This, wit jittle soup stock, may be added to cold beans and the whole may be fried as cakes In butter or fat of ham, * In the literary train comes the announcoment of a book, ‘Twenty Years in Heaven,” by a Rhode Island man, And yet we bad hopes that Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, would be tho historian of the future, Miss Corson in her pamphlet on dinners for the poor, or, as sho entitles it, “Fifteon Cont Dinnors,”! very jpstly calls attention to the uso of macaront; andsho urges the value of barley, beans and-peas when cooked iv broth. Thoro are wany people out of “shopwork” who, since the hard times Lave made mon sense alive, are willing to work at home on jobs, and do them bet ter than the “ready made” poeple do, Heads of (ams lies who care to look about may improve on the shoy style. Norristown erald:—*Spartanaburg, S. C., boasts o a woman ninety years of age who recently walked ¢ quarter ofa mile to beara funeral sermoo. If thi Spartan wotnan requires that sort of mental pabulum her triends should read ber a couple of pages from 4 London comic weekly, and thus obviate the necessity Jor ber taking long walks ip her old ago,” oo =